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Yes, it was a joke

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    This strikes me as solving an artificially produced problem. What benefit does this have other than confusing dyslexic programmers (like myself)?

    I can only hope this is a (shockingly poor) attempt at satire.

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      The post might make more sense if you consider on most architectures integers are stored as two’s complement and ~ is the binary negation operator.

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        I don’t think it is shockingly poor. It’s pretty good. I found the explanation very interesting.

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        The comments are even better than the article, and I am quite disappointed in myself for not finding out about the “Approaches from above” operator sooner.

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          It would have been great if Rayray had gotten __ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_TADPOLE_OPERATORS added to the MSDN documentation before the article was posted :)